COURSE UNIT TITLE

: CLASSICAL AND CONTEMPORARY APPROACHES TO THE SOCIOLOGY OF RELIGION

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
FDB 6263 CLASSICAL AND CONTEMPORARY APPROACHES TO THE SOCIOLOGY OF RELIGION ELECTIVE 3 0 0 7

Offered By

Philosophy and Religious Sciences

Level of Course Unit

Third Cycle Programmes (Doctorate Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR MEHMET CEM ŞAHIN

Offered to

Philosophy and Religious Sciences

Course Objective

To examine and analyze religion-society relations with a holistic perspective by learning the classical and contemporary approaches to the sociology of religion.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Knows the literature of the classical approaches to the sociology of religion, including the period until 1960.
2   Understands the effective ideas in the period of the classical approaches.
3   Learns contemporary approaches literature from 1960 to the present.
4   Interprets the requirements and the problems of contemporary sociology of religion according classical and contemporary approaches.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 What does the approach to the sociology of religion mean
2 Classical approaches: The approaches investigating the outputs of the social causes of emerging of religions
3 The approaches investigating some aspects of social and worldly views of religions from inside
4 The approaches referring to the interaction between religion and worldly society
5 The approaches seeing the religion as a collective delusion, a class exploitation tool, and an effort of escaping from world
6 General features of contemporary approaches
7 Phenomenological/Interpretive approach
8 Anthropological approach
9 The intervention approach: Examples of Alain Touraine and Nilüfer Göle
10 The approach of Modernism
11 The approach of Postmodernism
12 The overall differences between classical and contemporary approaches
13 The interpretation of the general problems of the sociology of religion in the light of the approaches
14 Overall evaluation and comment of the course on our country s social/sociological situation

Recomended or Required Reading

Primary References:
1. Ihsan Çapcıoğlu- Bünyamin Solmaz, Din Sosyolojisi Klasik ve Çağdaş Yaklaşımlar, Çizgi Kitabevi, Konya 2006.
2. Roberto Cipriani, Din Sosyolojisi Tarih ve Teoriler, Çeviren: Ali Coşkun, Rağbet Yayınları, Istanbul 2011.
3. Isa Kuyucuoğlu, Batıda Din Sosyolojisi Teori ve Yöntem Analizleri, Eskiyeni Yayınları, Istanbul 2008.
4. Adil Çiftçi, Anlayıcı Yaklaşım ve Din Sosyolojisi Için Uzanımları, Kitabiyat Yayınları, Ankara 2004.
Secondary References:
1. Margaret M. Poloma, Çağdaş Sosyoloji Kuramları, Çeviren: Hayriye Erbaş, Ankara 1993.
2. Ruth Wallace & Allison Wolf, Çağdaş Sosyoloji Kuramları, Çeviren: Leyla Elburuz ve M. Rami Ayas, Doğu Batı Yay., Istanbul 2013.
3. Fazlı Arabacı, Türk Din Sosyolojisi Imkan ve Sorunlar, Platin Yayınları, Ankara 2006.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Telling, Question&Answer, Discussion, Case study

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE
3 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.40 + FCG* 0.60
4 RST RESIT
5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.40 + RST* 0.60


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

Besides the questions testing if the students have learnt the knowledge they must have learnt, there will be classic questions which are intended to increase their power of interpretation.

Assessment Criteria

The success of students is being evaluated based on their performance at midterm exam, final exam, and course achievement.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

suheyl.unal@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Friday 14:00 - 16:00

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 3 42
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 5 70
Preparation for midterm exam 1 20 20
Preparation for final exam 1 30 30
Final 1 1 1
Midterm 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 165

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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